Beamlines & Insertion devices

BESSY II Beamlines

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Beamline		Location (Pillar)	Energy range	Polarisation	Beam availability	Phone	Instruments	Contact
BAMline	BAMline	3.2	4.5 keV - 60 keV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8104 5576	Spectroscopy@BAMline, Imaging@BAMline	Martin Radtke Henning Markötter
BElChem-DCM	Berlin Joint Lab for Electrochemical Interfaces @Dipole	6.1	2.4 - 10 keV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 13472	SpAnTeX	David Starr
BElChem-PGM	Berlin Joint Lab for Electrochemical Interfaces @U49-2 PGM	6.2	100 - 2000 eV	horizontal	24h/d, operation in TRIBS mode possible	+49 30 8062 14842	ECCOS, WESPE	Michael Hävecker
CPMU17_EMIL	Hard x-ray EMIL Beamline	13.2	PGM: 700-1600 eV (not available @PINK) DCM: 2200-10000 eV Multilayer mono @PINK: 2300-9500eV	horizontal		+49 (0) 30 8062 12109	CAT, OAESE, PINK, SISSY I	Mihaela Gorgoi Stefan Hendel
ELISA	ELISA						ELISA, ELIXIR
ENERGIZE	ENERGIZE	1.1	30 - 1600 eV	linear horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 2093 82291	ENERGIZE	Thorsten Schultz Fengshuo Zu
GELEM Dipole	German-Eastern European Laboratory for Energy and Materials Research Dipole formerly called RGBL Dipole	1.2	80 - 1500 eV	horizontal	24h/d	(030) 8062 - 13433	GELEM-PES	Anna Makarova
HE-SGM	HE-SGM for NEXAFS/XPS spectroscopy	4.1	155 - 750 eV	horizontal	24h/d	--	HE-SGM	Maria Brzhezinskaya
IRIS	IRIS THz/Infrared Dipole Beamline	4.1	.0006-1 eV, 2-10000 1/cm, 0.1-300 THz	linearly horizontal/vertical	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14716	IRIS	Ljiljana Puskar Alexander Veber
IRIS 2	IRIS THz/Infrared Dipole Beamline 2	4.1	.0006-1 eV, 2-10000 1/cm, 0.1-300 THz	linearly horizontal/vertical	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14716	IRIS 2	Ljiljana Puskar Alexander Veber
ISISS	ISISS	6.1	100 - 2000 eV	linear horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14905 / 14906	ISISS	Michael Hävecker
KMC-1	KMC-1	3.1	Si(111):2 - 12 keV; Si(311): 4 - 12 keV; Si(422): 6 - 12 keV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14838	HiKE@KMC-1, PRESTO, Small Reflectometer@KMC-1	Marcel Mertin Roberto Felix Duarte
KMC-2	KMC-2	11.2	4 - 15 keV	linear horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14623	Diffraction@KMC-2, XANES@KMC-2	Daniel Többens Götz Schuck
KMC-3 XPP	XPP-KMC-3-Beamline	15.1	2 - 14 keV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14695	XPP@KMC-3, XAS@KMC-3	Ivo Zizak Matthias Rössle
MX 14.1	MX_BEAMLINE_14.1	15.2	5 - 15.5 keV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 13432	MX 14.1	Manfred Weiss Uwe Müller
MX 14.2	MX_BEAMLINE_14.2	15.2	5 - 15.5 keV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 13432	MX 14.2	Manfred Weiss Uwe Müller
MX 14.3	MX_BEAMLINE_14.3	15.2	13.87 keV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 13432	MX 14.3	Manfred Weiss Uwe Müller
mySpot Beamline	mySpot Beamline	3.2	4 - 25 keV (not all usable for all methods)	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14793	mySpot	Ivo Zizak Ana Guilherme Buzanich
Optics Beamline	Optics Beamline	3.1	12.5 - 1850 eV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14755	Reflectometer@OpticsBL	Franz Schäfers Andrey Sokolov
PM2-VEKMAG	Vector Magnet	7.1	20 - 1600 eV	Circular, Horizontal	24h/d	+49 (0)30 8062 - 14834	VEKMAG@PM2	Florin Radu Victor Ukleev
PM3	Soft X-ray dipole variable polarisation with PGM open port + scattering chamber	13.2	20 - 1900 eV	• horizontal • circular	24h/d	0049 30 8062 13429	Scattering@PM3, ALICE II@PM3, SoLiAs@PM3, GELEM-PEEM@PM3, User station@PM3	Torsten Kachel Dirk Ponwitz
THz-Beamline	Coherent & Incoherent THz Synchrotron Radiation	12.1	2 cm^-1 - 10000 cm^-1	variable	24h/d	+4930 8062 13170	THz	Karsten Holldack Tarek Al Said Dirk Ponwitz
U41 SGM METRIXS	U41 SGM METRIXS	7.2	250 - 1000 eV	lin. horizontal			METRIXS	Annette Pietzsch
U41-PEAXIS	PEAXIS - Combined RIXS and XPS	7.2	180 eV - 1600 eV (RIXS: 200 eV - 1200 eV)	horizontal	12h/d, 60h/week, 7.5 shifts/week	(030) 8062-13154	PEAXIS	Christian Schulz Deniz Wong
U41-TXM	U41-TXM	7.2	180 - 1800 eV (soft X-ray range) & 700 - 2800 eV (tender X-ray range)	horizontal	12h/d	+49 30 8062 12110	TXM@U41	Stephan Werner
U125-2_KMC	U125-2_KMC	5.1	6 - 12 keV	horizontal	12h/d	--		Michael Hanke
U125-2_NIM	U125-2_NIM	4.2	6(4) - 40 eV	horizontal	12h/d	--	User station@U125-NIM	Peter Baumgärtel
U125_PGM	U125_PGM Undulator beamline	4.2	15 - 200 eV (optimal range)	Linear horizontal (fixed)	12h/d	+49 30 8062 14701	ioARPES, spin-ARPES@U125	Oliver Rader
UE46_MAXYMUS	UE46_MAXYMUS	12.1	200 - 1900 eV	Horizontal, Vertical, Circular positive, Circular negative	12h/d	+49 30 8062 14762	MAXYMUS	Markus Weigand Sebastian Wintz
UE46_PGM-1	UE46_PGM-1	11.2	120 - 2000 eV	linear any angle (with restrictions) circular	12h/d	+49 30 8062 14717	XUV Diffractometer@UE46, Pulsed-field@UE46	Eugen Weschke Enrico Schierle Oleksandr Prokhnenko
UE48_EMIL	Soft x-ray EMIL Beamline	13.2	in general: 80 eV to 2000 eV @MYSTIIC: 250 eV to 2500 eV	linear horizontal, linear vertical, circular			CAT, MYSTIIC, OAESE, SISSY I	Mihaela Gorgoi Stefan Hendel
UE49_PGM SMART	UE49 SMART	9.2	100 - 1800 eV	variable (linear and circular)	12h/d	+49 30 8062 13430	SMART	Thomas Schmidt Marcel Springer Stephan Pohl
UE49_PGM SPEEM	UE49 SPEEM	9.2	100 - 1800 eV	variable	12h/d	+49 30 8062 14750	SPEEM	Florian Kronast Sergio Valencia Molina
UE51_PGM-1	UE51_PGM-1 replacement for U49-2_PGM-1						ALICE II@OPUS, SOL³PES@OPUS, LiXEdrom@OPUS, User station@OPUS	Ronny Golnak
UE51_PGM-2	UE51_PGM-2 replacement for U49-2_PGM-2						LiXEdrom@myOPUS, SOL³PES@myOPUS, User Station@myOPUS	Ronny Golnak
UE52_PGM CoESCA	Soft X-ray undulator radiation variable polarization with PGM for CoESCA	11.1	115 - 1600 eV	variable	12h/d	+49 30 8062 14692	CoESCA	Danilo Kühn
UE52_PGM Ion trap	UE52_PGM Ion trap formerly nano cluster trap	11.1	120 - 1600 eV	variable	12h/d	+49 30 8062 12137	Ion Trap	Vicente Zamudio-Bayer
UE52_SGM	Soft X-ray undulator radiation variable polarization with SGM and resonant bunch excitation	10.2	100 - 1500 eV	variable	12h/d	+49 30 8062 13431	TES@UE52_SGM, NEXAFS@UE52_SGM	Lars Birger Mattis Fondell Christian Weniger Vinícius Vaz da Cruz
UE56-1_PGM	Soft X-ray fs-to-ps pulsed undulator radiation for FEMTOSPEX Surface Dynamics Please contact the beamline manager before applying for experiment time	12.2	60 - 1300 eV	• linear horizontal vertical • circular	12h/d	17980, 17981, 17982	FemtoSpex-SurfDyn	Nomi Sorgenfrei
UE56-1_ZPM	Soft X-ray fs-to-ps pulsed undulator radiation with variable polarization for FEMTOSPEX-DynaMax	12.2	400 - 1500 eV; 1800 eV	variable	12h/d	+49 30 8062-14715	FemtoSlicing-Dynamax	Karsten Holldack Niko Pontius
UE56-1_ZPM-HR	UE56-1_ZPM-HR						FemtoSlicing-HR	Christian Schüßler-Langeheine Niko Pontius
UE112_PGM-1	XUV undulator radiation variable polarization with PGM for meV RIXS	15.1	8 - 690 eV; for extreme values (<50 eV or >400 eV) contact the beamline crew	variable	12h/d	+49 30 8062 14836	meV RIXS@UE112	Maximilian Kusch
UE112_PGM-2a-1^2	UE112_PGM-2a-1^2	14.2	9 - 250 eV	• linear any angle • circular	12h/d	+49 30 8062 14696	ARPES One-Square	Andrei Varykhalov
UE112_PGM-2b-1^3	UE112_PGM-2b-1^3	14.2	4 - 200 eV	• linear any angle • circular	12h/d	+49 30 8062 14696	ARPES One-Cube	Emile Rienks Alexander Fedorov
PTB Laboratory at BESSY II	PTB Laboratory at BESSY II
PM4	Soft X-ray dipole variable polarisation with PGM and MHz Chopper for LowDosePES 1.1.2025	10.1	20 - 2000 eV	horizontal	24h/d	+49 30 8062 14713		Erika Giangrisostomi

BESSY II Insertion Devices

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Device	Periode length	Minimal Energy at 1,7 GeV	Minimal Gap	Polarisation	Beamlines
U125-2	125 mm	2.53 eV	15.7 mm	linear horizontal	U125_PGM, U125-2_KMC, U125-2_NIM
U139	139 mm	1.25 eV	16.6 mm	linear horizontal
U41	41 mm	170 eV	15.5 mm	linear horizontal	U41 SGM METRIXS, U41-PEAXIS, U41-TXM
U49-1	49.4 mm	77.9 eV	15.64 mm	linear horizontal	PTB Laboratory at BESSY II
UE51					UE51_PGM-1, UE51_PGM-2
UE112	112 mm	5.4 eV	24 mm	linear variable -90° ... +90° elliptical, circular	UE112_PGM-2b-1^3, UE112_PGM-1, UE112_PGM-2a-1^2
UE46	46.3 mm	109 eV	15.6 mm	linear variable 0° ... +90° elliptical, circular	UE46_MAXYMUS, UE46_PGM-1
UE52	52 mm	72 eV	16 mm	linear variable 0° ... +90° elliptical, circular	UE52_PGM CoESCA, UE52_PGM Ion trap, UE52_SGM
UE56-2	56 mm	60.5 eV	16.5 mm	linear horizontal, linear vertical, elliptical, circular	BElChem-PGM
UE56-1	56 mm	58.5 eV	16.6 mm	linear horizontal, linear vertical, elliptical, circular	UE56-1_PGM, UE56-1_ZPM
UE49	49 mm	91.2 eV	16 mm	linear variable -90° ... +90° elliptical, circular	UE49_PGM SMART, UE49_PGM SPEEM
UE48	48 mm	89.5 eV	16 mm	linear variable -90° ... +90° elliptical, circular	UE48_EMIL
CPMU17	17 mm	660 eV	5.6 mm	horizontal	CPMU17_EMIL

Wavelength shifter

Device	Periods/Pols	Beamlines	Contact
7T-WLS-1	3 n	BAMline, mySpot Beamline
7T-WLS-2	3 n	MX 14.1, MX 14.2, MX 14.3

Beamlines & Insertion devices

BESSY II Beamlines

BESSY II Insertion Devices

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